EGI Core activities:2013-bidding Monitoring central services
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- Service name: Central Monitoring Services
- Service category: Operations
- Service type: Coordination, operation
Central Monitoring Services is part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform, which supports the daily operations of EGI.
Introduction
Infrastructure operations requires in some cases monitoring activities to be conduced centrally to support specific activities, like monitoring of UserDN publishing in accounting records, GLUE information validation, and of software versions of deployed middleware.
Technical description
This service includes the following components.
Coordination
This activity is responsible of the coordination of the system operation and upgrade activities with those partners that are in charge of operating other systems that depend on it.
Support
Support through the EGI helpdesk about
Support about ... is out of scope and is part of activity 2nd level support (core platform).
Support hours: eight hours a day (9-17 CE(S)T), Monday to Friday – excluding public holidays of the hosting organization.
Operation
- Daily running of the system
- Testing and high availability configuration
Maintenance
This activity includes:
- core refactoring, bug fixing, proactive maintenance, improvement of the system
- coordination of software maintenance activities with other technology providers that provide software for the EGI Core Infrastructure or remote systems deployed by integrated and peer infrastructures that interoperate with the central EGI components of the system.
- requirements gathering
Service level targets
- Minimum availability/reliability: ..%/..%
- Response to incident records in GGUS within support hours: Medium (see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/FAQ_GGUS-PT-QoS-Levels#Medium_service)